Ever since the Occupy movement started, Democrat leaders, including the Petulant Boy-King Obama, have expressed their support for the “goals” of the Occutards. This most recent Oakland demonstration was supposedly an “improvement” over their rock-and-bottle-throwing event last weekend. (from Fox News)
Dozens of Occupy Oakland demonstrators burned an American flag and marched through the streets Saturday night, a week after
police fired tear gas to quell violent demonstrations and hundreds were arrested following a mass break-in at City Hall.
About 70 Occupy demonstrators began marching around 9 p.m. from City Hall en route to police headquarters, but a line of officers quickly blocked their path. Protesters veered off and began a winding, five-mile walk through city streets that ended nearly two hours later at their starting point. Following close behind was a caravan of police cars and vans, but there were no clashes between the groups or any other signs of violence.
Saturday’s action was aimed at protesting what they claim was abuse at the hands of officers during last Saturday’s protest that peaked with rock and bottle throwing from protesters and volleys of tear gas in response from the police. Following the march, the demonstrators congregated around City Hall as the protest wound down.
“It went well,” said Chris Moreland, who used a bull horn to help lead the march. “As long as we don’t destroy anything, the police don’t care.” ”It’s a win-win situation for everybody,” Moreland, 23, told The Associated Press. “We get our message across and they (police) get paid.” Police said that they had a strategy in place in the event the protest got out of hand, warning that vandalism and violence will not be tolerated.
“Although social media sites had indicated that individuals or groups planned a, `militant, radical march’ and asked peaceful bystanders to not interfere with criminal tactics, the march this evening overall was peaceful,” police spokeswoman Johnna A. Watson said.
Television stations said that at one point some protesters threw a bottle of urine at a KTVU truck and a wooden board at a KPIX truck.
From Weasel Zippers, another pic: Why do these people revere Che Guevera, a murderous Marxist thug, as some kind of hero?
Improvement or not, I don’t see this kind of activity as a win for anybody. Funny – I never learned in my upbringing and schooling that throwing rocks and bottles at the police, destroying property, urinating on police vehicles and burning the American flag constituted a legitimate form of protest. If these people hate America so much, and feel that they just can’t tolerate living here, why don’t they just go somewhere that people embrace this kind of foolishness, like Europe? That Democrats showed any support for these people is disturbing.
